Director, Product Management

Achieve is the leader in digital personal finance, helping everyday people thrive with innovative solutions like home equity and personal loans, and debt relief. The Director of Product Management will drive the overarching product strategy, manage a team of Product Managers, and collaborate with various departments to enhance Achieve's lending products and market presence.

Responsibilities:

• Build, scale, and mentor a world-class, multi-layered product management organization
• Establish a high-performance culture rooted in operational discipline, continuous talent development, and product management excellence
• Define and champion the long-term product vision, strategy, and investment roadmap for the Lending Product organization
• Ensure the portfolio balances immediate commercial scaling with long-term foundational technical architecture
• Provide leadership and direction for the development of our next-generation, API-first lending architecture
• Drive the modernization of our core lending origination systems, automated decisioning frameworks, real-time pricing engines, and external partner ecosystems
• Be accountable for the business performance of Lending product lines, tracking core metrics including funnel performance, close rates, time-to-fund and product profitability
• Act as a critical liaison between Product and key executive stakeholders in Marketing, Capital Markets, Credit Risk, Legal & Compliance, Sales, and Operations
• Ensure complex industry regulations are met and seamlessly integrated into scalable, friction-free customer software experiences
• Drive the adoption of emerging technologies, modern data/analytics capabilities, and alternative data underwriting methods to keep Achieve ahead of fintech competitors and shifting macroeconomic conditions

Requirements:

• Deep knowledge of the end-to-end digital consumer lending lifecycle, automated credit risk rules engines, modern loan origination technology stacks, secondary market/capital market constraints, and equity/unsecured debt products
• Proven experience overseeing complex API-first platform transformations, modern cloud architecture transitions, and enterprise-level data layer definitions
• Exceptional track record of presenting to, influencing, and aligning C-suite executives and regulatory bodies on highly strategic, high-capital decisions
• A proven leader who has successfully taken product lines from zero-to-one, as well as scaled consumer facing lending platforms